Brassiere



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@ BRASSIERE Filed Feb. 9, 1955 2 Sheets-Sheet 2 Unitfld States Patent BRASSIERE I "Joseph Verreauit, Quebec, Quebec, Canadayas'signo'r to Dominion Corset Goinpariy Limited,'Quebec, Quebec,

Canada Application February 9,l955 serial No."487,1'85

11 'Ciaims. (Cl. -128--466) This invention relates to improvements in breast pockets for foundation garments.

The principal object of 'this invention is to provide the cup-shaped breast pockets of a "foundation garment with an elongated lining strip arranged in helical rows from the centre towards the periphery of the poc'kets,said helical rows of lining strip each having one marginal edge disposed in lapping relation to the adjacent marginal edge of the preceding row and being secured to the pocket bya'spinal line of stitching extending through the lapping portions of the rows of lining.

'An object of this invention is to .provide a breast (pocket and lining of the character described, with a spiral line of stitching which will provide circumferential and radial flexibility to the'bre'ast pocket as well as reinforce'in'e'nt thereto.

The above mentioned flexibility may be satisfactorily attained by' any one of the types of stitching described in the copending U. S. applications Serial No. 348,15 6, filed April 13, 1953, now Patent No. 2,781,518; SerlalNo. 388,332, filed October 26, 1953;Serial No. 423,167,-filed April 14, 1954, now Patent No. 2,753,564, and/or modified forms thereof, as will become apparent from the following detailed description taken in connection with the accompanying drawings, in which:

'Fig. 1 is a front view of a brassiere embodying'my invention. t

"Fig. 2 is a side view of the outer surface of afra "men-t of one breast pocket shown in Fig. 1, but inpartially completed state.

Fig. 3 is a view showing the reverse side of the pocket of Fig. 2 as it would appear turned inside out.

Fig. 4 is a fragmentary View in plan of a breast pocket showing a modifiedspiral stitching.

Fig. 5 is a view illustrating the manner in which the stitching of Fig. 4 is interlocked.

Fig. 6 is a view projecting the inner side of a fragment of a pocket along aplane so as to illustrate by curved lines the biasingeffect onthe'breast poclcet under specific conditions according to-this invention.

Referring more particularly to the drawings, 5 designates a breast pocket of a brassiere t0 the inner surface of which a strip of lining 6 is sewn. The lining strip 6 is infolded along one side at 8 to provide a folded under portion 7 and is then secured to the breast pocket inner facing in a helical or spiral fashion from the centre of the breast pocket. As will be seen, particularly in Fig. 3, the lining strip 6 has its folded under portion 7 directed towards the centre of the breast pocket and a line of stitching, generally indicated at 9, passes through the facing of the breast pocket 5, the overlapping marginal portions of adjacent spirals of the lining strip 6 and the folded under edge 7 lying therebetween along a spiral line from the centre to the periphery of the pocket. As the lining strip 6 is spirally arranged from the centre to the periphery of the breast pocket, the folded under marginal portion 7 of each new spiral row overlaps r 2,830,590 lcg Patented Apr. 15, 1958 'the 'outer, non-folded marginal portionlll ofthe precedin'grow. The spiral line of stitching 9 secures them in overlapping relation to the breast pocket inner facing.

In Figs. 1, 2 and 3'the spiral stitching is shown to be of a'zig-zag formation in parallel helical rows of the character described in a co-pending U. S. application 'Serial No. 348,'l56,'filed April 13, 1953. Briefly stated this stitching comprises a spiral line of zig-zag stitching overlying the outer facing of the breast pocket to define reversely extending V-forniations having their apices at opposite sides of an imaginary helical centre line and interlocked at their apices with a duplicate spiral line of zig-rzag stitching overlying the lapping portions of the spiral lining strip. This'arrangement of the spiral Zigzag stitching in combination with the spiral lining strip produces two principal effects. One is to provide a circumferential flexibility of the pocket and the lining strip. The other is to provide a radial flexibility which increases from the centre to the periphery of the breast pocket. The combined efiects increase the flexibility and suppleness of the breast pocket from the centre to the peripheral edge of the pocket.

The spiral or helical stitching 3 may also be a single line in the formof an R-stitch as shown and described in co-pendingU. S. application Serial No. 388,332, filed October 26, 1953, or in the form of multiple lines of parallel stitches of substantially R-configuration as described in co-pending U. S. application Serial No. 423,167, filed April 14, 1954. Briefly, the R-stitching according to application Serial No. 388,332 consists of a "single helical or spiral line of stitching overlying the outer facing of thebreast pocket in the form of a multiplicity of closely spaced convolutions composed of stitches arranged to form a continuous series of reversely arranged script R shaped loops, open ends of certain of which are directed toward the centre of the pocket and the remainder of which are directed toward the peripheral portion of the pocket, each of said stitches on the one facing being interlocked with duplicate stitches of a complementary line on the outer face of the lining strip.

The multiple R-stitching according to application Serial No. 423,167 consists of a plurality of closely spaced parallel lines of stitching on the outer facing of the breast pocket, each of said lines of stitching forming a multiplicity of closely spaced convolutions composed of stitches arranged to form a continuous series of reversely arranged script R shaped loops, open ends of certain of which are directed toward the centre of the pocket and the remainder of Which are directed toward the periphery or the "pocket, the convolutions of one line of stitching paralleling the convolutions of an adjacent parallel line facingwhi'ch'isinterlocked with the corresponding stitch forming loops of said parallel lines of stitching.

The Figs. 4 and 5 illustrate a preferred embodiment of the R-stitching in which two parallel lines of stitching 9 of R configuration extend helically about the facing of the breast pocket 5 and rare interlocked with a bobbin thread 12 on the facing of the lining strip 6 so as to secure the adjacent marginal portions of each successive helical row of the lining strip to the breast pocket with the inner folded marginal portion of each succeeding row in overlapping relation with the outer marginal portion of a preceding adjacent row of the lining strip.

The above illustration of the script Ft stitching, while specifically showing a double line of stitching, is thought to be adequately representative of a single line or any multiple lines of R-stitching in the light of the disclosures in co-pending applications Serial No. 388,332 and Serial No. 423,167. In all of the R-shaped stitching, whether single or multiple lines, their combination with the spiral lining produce two principle effects. One is to provide a circumferential flexibility of the pocket and lining strip afforded by the expansibility of the stitching. The other is to provide a biasing effect, increasing in width from the centre to the periphery of the breast pocket substantially along the curved lines A, shown in Fig. 6, thus increasing the flexibility and suppleness of the pocket from the centre to the periphery thereof. The particular feature of the multiple lines of stitching is that it provides a substantially flattened, reinforced band-like area along the spiral or helical rows of the lining strip, the width of said band-like area being determined by the number of parallel lines of stitching to each row.

What I claim is:

1. A foundation garment including cup-shaped breast pockets each having an outer facing and an inner lining, the latter comprising an elongated strip of lining material spiralling from the centre towards the periphery of the pocket to provide parallel helical rows of lining material on the inner surface of the breast pocket, each of said helical rows having its inner marginal edge overlapping the outer marginal edge of an inwardly adjacent helical row, said helical rows of lining strip being secured to said outer facing by continuous stitching spiralling from the centre towards the periphery of the pocket so as to directly secure the lapping portions of the adjacent helical rows of lining strip to each other and to the outer facing.

2. A foundation garment as set forth in claim 1, in which said lining strip has one marginal portion folded under to provide a double-ply inner marginal edge which, when the strip is arranged in said helical rows, overlaps the said outer marginal edge of an inwardly adjacent row.

3. A foundation garment as set forth in claim 1, in which said stitching comprises a spiral line of zig-zag stitching overlying the outer facing of said breast pocket and interlocked with a duplicate spiral line of zig-zag stitching overlying the said lapping portions of the rows of lining strip.

4. A foundation garment as set forth in claim 3, in which the zig-zag lines of stitching define reversely extending V-formations, certain of which have their open ends directed toward the centre and the remainder of which are directed toward the periphery of the pocket.

5. A foundation garment as set forth in claim 1, in which said stitching spirals from the centre towards the periphery of the breast pocket in the form of a multi- 7. A foundation garment as set forth in claim 5, in which said convolutions are substantially the contour of the small letter r as written in script form.

8. A foundation garment as set forth in claim 5, in which certain of the loop-forming stitches are arranged to form a straight, closed end and others are arranged to form the sides of the loops, said side-forming stitches extending at an angle with respect to the closed ends of the loops.

9. A foundation garment as set forth in claim 5, in which certain of the loop-forming stitches are arranged to form a straight, closed end diagonally inclined to extend at an oblique angle with reference to the outer periphery of the breast pocket, and the remainder of the stitches are arranged to form the sides of the loops, said side-forming stitches being inclined with reference to the closed ends to form an obtuse angle with the closed end of one loop and an acute angle with the closed end of an adjacent reversely arranged loop.

10. A foundation garment as set forth in claim 1, in which said stitching comprises multiple lines of parallel stitching overlying the outer face of the breast pocket and interlocked with a single thread extending over the outer surface of the overlapping portions of said helical rows of lining strip, said multiple lines of stitching each .spiralling from the centre towards the periphery of the breast pocket in the form of a multiplicity of reversely arranged convolutions and composed of stitches arranged parallel to the corresponding stitches of the remainder of the lines of stitching and to form a series of surface loops having closed ends on the breast pocket outer facing, the loop-forming stitches of each of said multiple lines of stitching being also arranged so that the open ends of certain of the surface loops face towards the centre and the open ends of the remaining loops face toward the outer periphery of the breast pocket.

11. A foundation garment including cup-shaped breast pockets each comprising an outer facing material and an inner lining secured to the rear surface of the outer facing material, said lining material consisting of a narrow strip of lining material spiralling from the centre to the outer periphery of the breast pocket with marginal portions of adjacent convolutions of the lining strip disposed in overlapping relation and spiral zig-zag stitching overlying the lapped portions of the lining strip and interlocked with spiral zig-zag stitching overlying the outer surface of the facing material.

References Cited in the file of this patent UNITED STATES PATENTS 2,653,557 Casas-Robert et al Sept. 29, 1953 2,672,612 Vale Mar. 23, 1954 2,685,085 Clover V Aug. 3, 1954 FOREIGN PATENTS 888,598 France Sept. 13, 1943 931,528 France Oct. 27, 1947 

